Bracket.



PATENTED JULY 28, 1903..

H. G. VOIGHT.

BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1a. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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` UNITED f STATES PATENT Patented July 28, 1903.

OFFICE.

HENRY G. voIeIIT, oF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, AssICNoR To RUSSELL AND ERwIN IVIANUFACTURINCr COMPANY, oF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTI- CUT.

BRACKET..

4SPECJ-IFICJl-LTION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 734,780, dated July 28, 1903.

` Application flied August 18,4902. Serial No. 120,059. (No model.) A

.To @ZZ whom it may concern: f

Beit known that I, HENRY G. VOIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and 1 useful Improvements in Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in brackets; and the objects of my improvements generally are simplicity and economy in construction and efficiency and convenience in use.

In the accompanying drawings,-Figure l is a vertical section of the wall and shelf plates on the zigzag lines x of Figs2, 3, and 4,4 together with a side ele vation of the brace. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of thewall-plate. Fig. 3

l is a rear elevation or end view of the shelfplate. Fig. 3% is a broken plan view of the and then swagin g or striking up in dies.

upper end of the brace. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the complete bracketless the outer end of the shelf-plate, which is broken off. Fig.. 5 is Va central vertical section of the outer end of the shelf-plate-of Fig. 6, with a side elevation of the adjacent portion ofthe brace. Fig. 6 is a `plan view of the bracket of which a portion is shown in Fig. 5.

A designates the wall-plate, B the shelfplate, and C the brace. These parts are'all made of metal by punching or blanking out The wall-plate A is` provided near its upper end with a tongue -receiving socket and two corner projections 7, and the shelf-plate is provided with a tongue S at its inner or rear end to be received in the socket of the wall-plate and withabutting shoulders 9 to rest immediately in front of theV corner projections 7. The screw-holes 10, as shown, are countersunk by swaging or striking up; thereby forming a bur 1l on the inner face of the metal, in which the said screw holes are formed. The tongue 8 of the shelf -plate is provided with a screw-hole 12, that registers with the upper one of the holes 10 in the wallplate, the said screw-hole 12 being formed to receive into it the bur 11 of the screw-hole `with whichit registers,as shown in Fig. l.

are not claimed herein excepting in connection with the features of construction hereinafter described.

In my present improvements I construct the brace and shelf-plate with special "reference to making one of the securing-screws serve as a positive lock to secure the brace in place, andin this bracket the wall and shelf plates may both be secured in place with the enception of one screw before the brace is inserted. In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 4 the upper vend of the brace is twisted a quarter of a revolution, so as to bring the said upper end into a horizontalplane parallel to the shelf-plate, and in the said horizontal end I form a screwvholel'with the projecting bur 18, the said screw-hole and bur registering with the outer one of the screw-holes 10 in the shelf-plate B, as shown in Fig. 1. y

In the formsho wn in Figs. 5 and 6 the shelfplate is provided with a locking-slot 2O and screw-hole slot 21, the latter opening into the screw-hole 17a, which screw-hole, in. effect, forms a continuation of the said slot. The upper end of the brace C is provided with a hooked lug 22, which projects inwardly from the corner of the bracket instead of outwardly, and with a tenon 23, that iits and` fills the screw-hole slot 21 at the side of the screwhole 17a, while the outer or front face of the said tenon 23is beveled off, as at 24, Fig. 6,v

screw-head, thereby forming what is practically one side wall of. a screw-hole that registers with the screw-hole 17a. j

Inboth of theconstructionsshown thewall andshelf plates may be secured in place by inserting all of the screws exceptingthe screw for the shelf-plate at theupper end of the brace before the brace is putin place. The brace can then be inserted by iirst inserting the lower end to engage the hookedlug 16 and tenon in the slot 14 andmortise 13 of the wall-plate, as shown in Fig. 1. In the IOU with the outer screw-hole of the shelf-plate,

so that the insertion of the last screw through the said holes positively locks the parts in place. In the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6 after the lower end of the brace is inserted in the wall-plate, as shown in Fig. l, the upper end of the brace may be dropped a little to bring the said upper end forwardly into a position Where the hooked lug 22 will be under the locking-slot 20 and the tenon 23 under the screw-hole 17% The brace is then pushed upwardly to pass the hooked lug through the locking-slot 2O and the tenon into the screwhole 17 and then pushed inwardly to engage the hooked lug with the metal at the inner end of the locking-slot 2O and slip the tenon into the screw-hole slot 2l, as shown in Fig. 6, when the insertion of the last shelf-screw will positively lock the parts in place, so that they cannot be disengaged so long as the said screw remains in place.

I am aware that prior patents show wall and shelf plates made in one piece and separable braces with one end having` a plain screw-hole arranged to register with a plain screw-hole in the confronting portion of the plate, against which the said brace abuts, the said end of the brace being secured by a screw passing through both of the said holes, and I hereby disclaim the same.

By my improvement the construction is simple and inexpensive, the bracket is very strong and substantial, the wall and shelf plates are separableand all but one of the screws may be inserted before the brace is put in position, and the last end of the brace to be fastened and the portion of the plate to which the said end is fitted have screw-holes with interlocking'recesses and projections, whereby the insertion of the final screw positively locks the parts in place.

I claim as my inventionl. A bracket consisting of separable wall and shelf plates and an interlocking brace, one end of the said brace and the portion of the plate to which the said end is fitted having screw-holes with interlock ing recesses and projections which are locked in engagement with each other by the insertion of the last one of the holding-screws.

A bracket consisting of a wallplate, shelf-plate and brace, having locking means for connecting the lower end of the brace with the wall-plate and registering screw-holes at the upper end of the brace and the shelf-plate one of the said screw-holes having a bur for entering the companion screw-hole, substantially as described.

HENRY G. VOIGHT.

Witnesses:

M. S. WIARD, W. E. WIGHTMAN. 

